The situation in Yemen is a top concern. The situation seems to be getting worse and worse with more players involved now. That’s why I have chosen this subject. But I think it’ very interesting to see how the media talk about this country and how is it defines.
Tuesday 24 May 2011
Monday 23 May 2011
MEDIA REFLECTS ON YEMEN CRISIS
With the U.S. already fighting in two wars, Yemen has been revealed as another possible front opening up. But there could be secret links between the countries that is feeding into the American media, which is now stoking fears that the Arab nation is a hotbed of terrorism. RT's Gayane Chichakyan reports.
CNN - Will the US retaliate in Yemen?
PRESS REVIEW
STATE AT RISK: THE CASE OF YEMEN
For some years, the situation in the Yemen worries States with the increase of the groups of Al Qaida. But how this country is depicted by the media? That’s what we will see through three articles of the Guardian, New York Times and Newsweek.
A political ground
Some as United States or United Kingdom see in the Yemen a country which would shelter terrorist cells. It is what that would legitimize a military action against this country. According to the New York Times, The U.S. military has launched missile attacks against al-Qaida targets inside Yemen's territory, with Saleh's full acquiescence. Despite the approval of Gordon Brown, reported by the Guardian, this military action is not to everyone’s taste.
An unnecessary expense
Indeed, the threat is exaggerated. Newsweek's Tim Fernholz discredits the idea that Yemen, as another terrorist safe haven like Afghanistan, is a threat. He writes: "With the costs of the already $68 billion-a-year Afghanistan conflict set to rise, it's time for the administration to rethink the balance of resources between military operations designed to shut down terrorist safe havens and the intelligence and law enforcement efforts that could have stopped the incident on Christmas."
A Fragile Nation
Nevertheless, Robert F.Worth, who led the investigation for the New York Times Magazine, prefers to see in Yemen its economic vulnerability. Through its report: “The Next Afghanistan?” he shows how Yemen has since reunification in 1990 slowly pushed into the weakening economy. But mostly he analyzes how, to avoid every political protest, the leaders have played on tribal rivalries of the country. That ultimately “a feeble Yemen, overwhelmed by a rampant poverty, marked by exploitation of the tribal system, which is now ripe to fall into the clutches of al-Qaida”.
But Yemen is also part of the failed States. The Journal of American Foreign policy geopolitics has just published the rankings for this year. His situation is getting worse: while in 2007 it was ranked 24th overall in failed States, he now ranks the 18th place.
To conclude, in my opinion, that is in the political turmoil surrounding their embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, that many Yemeni soldiers have abandoned their posts, leaving the power vacuum filled by terrorists. But once the situation stabilized, what will happen to the country?
So the Yemen: potential foe or single victim of circumstances?
Sources
The Guardian : “Tories claim Brown 'playing politics' over anti-terror plans”
The New York Times : “Yemen; the next Afghanistan?
Foreignpolicy : “Failed States Index 2010”
The Newsweek : “Do We Need 30,000 Troops in Yemen, or A Better Counter-Terror Strategy?”
Sources
The Guardian : “Tories claim Brown 'playing politics' over anti-terror plans”
The New York Times : “Yemen; the next Afghanistan?
Foreignpolicy : “Failed States Index 2010”
The Newsweek : “Do We Need 30,000 Troops in Yemen, or A Better Counter-Terror Strategy?”
THE SITUATION OF THE YEMEN
After Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, it's Yemen's turn to host a protest suppressed by firing firearms. It was in this atmosphere that the Yemen deplores multiple victims.
Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president is both head of state and government, dominates the country's political life.
In power since 22 May 1990, he commited to leave at the end of the year. But the revolt of the opponents of the dictatorship; refuses, wanting his immediate departure, especially after the massacre of about forty protesters in the capital Sana'a by the security forces.
The opposition says fearing a political maneuver, what that was still acceptable yesterday is not today. In February, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in the streets already Sana'a which had resulted in a declaration by the President not to seek a third term. Things are soared since that a significant portion of the army, his clan and its executives would have dropped him.
We know that Yemen is facing activism of Al-Qaeda and the 22 March, 13 militants were killed in clashes with Yemeni soldiers to Loder, south of the country, according to a local official.
In the south-east town of Al-Mukalla, on the map, the first incident between elements of the regular army and presidential guard units has did two killed, according witnesses and medical sources.The terrorists of Osama bin Laden are active in Yemen as the country is not stabilized; especially in the east wich is desertic.
Yemen is an extremely poor country among the 10 poorest in the world, wich explains the revolt suppressed in blood. This poverty and unemployment are at the heart of the revolt in a country of 24 million people and 40 inhabitants per km ². There is 45% of the population who lives below the poverty line set at two dollars a day; it can be compared in Cameroon.
The Yemen's oil revenues: he produces 300.00 barrels crude oil per day, representing 25% of its revenues. In addition the country has significant gas resources from a height of 259 billion m3.
Protest following the ban of the sit-in place of the young university in Sana'a, demanding the departure of the President Saleh
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